Saturday, March 1, 2014

Skiing


If you're me and you're driving up highway 20 in the middle of the storm and you see the clouds parting and the rain falling, you pull over and take a photo.  You even convince the 6 year old in the car to turn off the ipad and get out and look at the rainbow.  My friend Kathy has convinced me to join her in a photo a day challenge for the month of March, so in honor of my attempt to get on track with that project, I'm sharing yesterday's photos, plus a photo from today (that makes sense, right?).





Josh and I spent the afternoon skiing, and Dan and Ben joined us for the last hour, can't remember the last time I skied till 4pm.  The best line of the day was Josh after we refueled with coffee and coffee and  we skied down Scott Chute he said with a big huge grin, "Mom, I skied the whole run with parallel turns, last time I did it I had lots of pizza turns."  He was so excited we did the run again.  And when Dan and Ben showed up they decided we should ski God's Golf Ball (which wasn't very good), but they were still game for the adventure.  We finished with their first run down Gentian Gully and a visit to the broccoli tree.


So in honor of a photo a day for the month of March, the above shot is Dan skiing some great powder turns down South Face off Sherwood Chair this morning.  And the photo below is actually a photo of me (imagine that).

Tuesday, February 25, 2014

Josh and the Tooth Fairy




Guess who's coming to our house tonight?  The tooth fairy!!  Way to go Josh....

Saturday, February 15, 2014

Valentine's Day Love


Valentine's Day love...  Some fun in the snow, plenty of time chilling with the boys and a great visit from our friends the Tim & Lydia and a fabulous introduction to their newest member of the family.  Welcome to the party Edward.



Saturday, February 1, 2014

Pinewood Derby


Pinewood Derby Cub Scout fun, for more photos check out my Outside Inn blog post.  Ben and Dan's car won the prize for "Most Unique" and Ben was very excited that his car won 3 of its heats for speed (although we don't know how fast it was out of all 60 cars).  Ben's idea was to build a Hersey chocolate bar, the boys build it to scale, including a mould made out of silicone and then filled with acrylic to cast the blocks.  Dan took out a bite out of the wood car with a drill press and then wrapped the whole car in an actual wrapper.






Saturday, January 18, 2014

Boys doing school work




Just another glimpse of every day life in our household.  Ben and Josh working on some schoolwork, me taking their photos.

Friday, January 3, 2014

Happy Birthday Josh


Happy Birthday Josh!  At 6 years you bring us joy with your contagious giggles, questions, bright eyes, enthusiasm and can do attitude.  Today you spent the morning hanging with your ski team, but took a few runs with us in the afternoon, needing to go down the knolls and go off rocks.  We finished the day with a play at Commons Beach with our friends and a pizza dinner.




Thursday, January 2, 2014

Ben, age 8 1/2


It's Ben's half birthday, so as a nod to some previous posts I've done (here or here) here's a few tid bits about Ben at age 8 1/2.
  • Lego Maniac
  • Kuk Swool Won blue belt with red stripe
  • likes reading (recently read Island of the Blue Dolphon, Catching Fire and Harry Potter)
  • Skiing
  • Bike Riding
  • Playing Minecraft
  • Enjoys jokes, "What do you call a talking burrito?  A Taco."
  • Camping
  • Gummy bears
  • Hot chocolate
  • chess


And a little video from the boys recent camping trip.